Great books
Good to see there is a movie coming.
"Cantos" means song in portuguese.
Also see they're planning movies based on "Ilium" and "Olympos". Good luck to them, I think they'll need it!
Which novel do you like best?
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Also see they're planning movies based on "Ilium" and "Olympos". Good luck to them, I think they'll need it!
I only recently got into A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin (spelling?) and let me tell you I've been missing out on good literature for the past few years. I actually picked it up because there was a former thread on the series on this board. Best book series I've picked up in the last two years by far.
I also love the Dark Tower from Stephen King and the ending of that series is pretty damned good in my eyes.
I also love the Dark Tower from Stephen King and the ending of that series is pretty damned good in my eyes.
Pity. I guess I'd say "A Simple Plan" by Scott Smith. I don't know if the movie really did it justice appropriately. Besides, they changed the ending. I'm fond of Mary Roach's writing. A lot. But neither of my top two choices are really what this thread is all about.
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I meant cliche in its prolly the most acclaimed novel of all-time, it certainly would appear in the most top10/100 lists. (its only competition would possibly be wuthering heights, war + peace (anna karenia better though))
On the flipside, my most hated novel (though have never finished it in 3 attempts, which is in itself a rarity cause normally I finish a book even if I dont like it)
to the lighthouse
On the flipside, my most hated novel (though have never finished it in 3 attempts, which is in itself a rarity cause normally I finish a book even if I dont like it)
to the lighthouse
digitalwanderer
Legend
Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat series
Isaac Asimov's Elijah Baley & R. Daneel Olivaw series
Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas/on the Campaign Trail '72
Robert Aspirin's Myth Series
J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" (Fuck off, I liked it)
Almost everything Mark Twain ever wrote
Alan Dean Foster's Flinx & Pip series, plus lots of others of his
Spider Robinson's Lifehouse series, Callaghan's Saloon
Everything Robert Heinlein ever wrote
Most of the golden age of science fiction
Earl Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason, all 88 of 'em.
More as they come.
Isaac Asimov's Elijah Baley & R. Daneel Olivaw series
Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas/on the Campaign Trail '72
Robert Aspirin's Myth Series
J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" (Fuck off, I liked it)
Almost everything Mark Twain ever wrote
Alan Dean Foster's Flinx & Pip series, plus lots of others of his
Spider Robinson's Lifehouse series, Callaghan's Saloon
Everything Robert Heinlein ever wrote
Most of the golden age of science fiction
Earl Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason, all 88 of 'em.
More as they come.
Harry Potter.
Thats right. I said it.
Thats right. I said it.
Aspirin's Myth series was a fun read.
digitalwanderer
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My sister is trying to get me to reread it, he put out a bunch between when I stopped reading it and he passed on.
I read a fair few of the 'Myth' series. Entertaining and light reading. I'd have continued reading them, I suppose, but they stopped publishing them in the UK.
Read a couple of the 'Phule' books as well and thought they were little more than low-rent knock-offs of the Myth series!
Read a couple of the 'Phule' books as well and thought they were little more than low-rent knock-offs of the Myth series!
digitalwanderer
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I liked the first couple Phule's Company though, Aspirin is allowed to knock-off himself.
I enjoyed them too.
